Riches are for spending.
In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.
If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
A physician’s physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric’s divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Thus, by every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.
One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
